Rick James Lohstroh, a doctor at UTMB, was fatally shot this summer,
apparently by his 10-year-old son.

ABC13 Eyewitness News, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Dec. 29, 2004

The 10-year-old Katy boy accused of murdering his father this summer
is now the face of an unofficial psychiatric disorder that may have lead
to his father's death.

Some psychiatrists call it Parental Alienation Syndrome and they say
that's why the son killed Doctor Rick Lohstroh last summer. The syndrome
is basically caused by a bitter parent who poisons a child against the other
parent, usually in cases of divorce.
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Nearly one in 10 girls and one in 20 boys say they have been raped or
experienced some other form of abusive violence on a date, according to
a study released Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association.
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More and more teens are becoming depressed. The numbers of young people
suffering from depression in the last 10 years has risen worryingly, an
expert says.

BBC, UK, August 3, 2004

Government statistics suggest one in eight adolescents now has depression.

Unless doctors recognise the problem, more could slip through the net,
says Professor Tim Kendall of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental
Health.

Guidelines on treating childhood depression will be published next year.
Professor Kendall says a lot more needs to be done to treat the illness.
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Woman convicted of killing 3 kids after custody
battle

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, USA, August 26, 2008

HELSINKI, Finland - A court in Finland has convicted a woman of murdering
her three young children and has given her a life sentence.

The Espoo District Court says Thai-born Yu-Hsiu Fu was found guilty of
strangling her 8-year-old twin daughters and 1-year-old son in her home.

She tried to kill herself afterward.

The verdict on Tuesday says the 41-year-old woman was found to be of
sound mind at the time of the murders.

Court papers show the murders were preceded by a bitter custody battle
with her Finnish husband who was living separately from her at the time
of the murders.

A life sentence in Finland mean convicts usually serve at least 11 years
in prison.

Virtual Library of Newspaper
Articles

KID-SEX SHOCKER

New York Post, U.S.A., By LEONARD GREENE and DAN MANGAN,
November 8, 2004

A 29-year-old Connecticut woman €” accused of sexually assaulting
an 8-year-old boy for months €” says she considers the little
neighbor her "boyfriend" and hopes to marry him someday,
authorities said yesterday.

"I don't want anyone but you!" Tammy Imre allegedly wrote
in a letter to the boy, who was a playmate of Imre's 7-year-old
daughter.

"Now tomorrow it's supposed to rain, you can come over [and]
we can (you know what)."

The Stratford woman's letter was discovered Sept. 21 by
the boy's older brother, who gave it to their mother, authorities
said. Their mom went to the police the next day.

"They [the letter's contents] were grown things that should
not have been said to a little boy," the 8-year-old's mother
told The Post yesterday. "My instincts were to go over and
bust her door down."

Police arrested Imre on Friday at her Birch Drive home,
which is just across the street from the boy's house.

A divorced blonde who works as a secretary and was once
an aspiring actress, Imre is charged with two counts of
sexual assault and one count of risk of injury to a minor
for the alleged sex incidents. She faces more than 20 years
in prison if convicted.

The case comes months after one of the nation's most infamous
kiddie-sex offenders €” Mary Kay LeTourneau €” was released
after prison for seducing a sixth-grade male student. She
went on to have two children with the boy, who is now an
adult.

Imre is scheduled to be arraigned today in Bridgeport court,
and is being held on $100,000 bond.

Imre readily admitted to police that she had a long-term
sexual relationship with the boy, the Connecticut Post reported.

Imre told police, "I can't give a number, but it was a lot,"
referring to the number of sexual encounters with the boy,
according to the newspaper. At least one of those encounters
reportedly was witnessed by Imre's 7-year-old daughter,
who told police she had seen the boy and her mom doing "disgusting"
things, the paper said.

The boy's mother told The New York Post that she believes
Imre began having sex with her son about six months ago,
when he was still 7 years old. Imre would have sex with
him in her home, while her daughter was downstairs watching
television, said the boy's mother.

"I didn't suspect anything," the mother said, adding that
she and Imre used to walk each other's children to the school
bus stop and that Imre and her daughter attended the boy's
eighth birthday party in September. "She didn't only ruin
my son's life, she ruined her daughter's," the mother said,
noting that Imre's daughter has been taken away by a social
services agency.

New Brunswick woman ruled responsible in burning of baby's body

ST. STEPHEN, N.B. — A New
Brunswick judge says a woman who burned and dismembered her newborn son
is criminally responsible for her actions.

Becky Sue Morrow earlier pleaded guilty to offering an indignity to a
dead body and disposing of a newborn with the intent of concealing a
delivery.

Judge David Walker ruled Friday that the 27-year-old woman may have
been suffering from a mental disorder when she delivered the baby but
that that was not the case when the baby's body was burned and its
remains hidden.

It is not known if the baby was alive at the time of birth.

At a hearing last month, the court heard contrasting reports from the
two psychiatrists. One said Ms. Morrow was in a “disassociated” mental
state when the crime occurred. The other said she clearly planned her
actions and understood the consequences. More..